What makes this worse is the obvious disrespect from Cowbee of my request to disengage. I made it very clear I didn’t want to argue. These communities have absolutely no standards of behaviour for members of the in-group. Which is exactly why I don’t engage with them in these communities.
Well, also the fact that I hate being constantly called a liberal for not repeating Capitalist Putin’s latest botfarm talking point. Talking to these people is an exercise in keeping my calm while I am constantly insulted. No thank you.
Maybe there’s more context here that I’m missing, but from what I can see…
YDI/BPR
If you don’t want to argue, stop typing or block them. Real childish pot stirring behaviour going on there. You can’t try and get the last word in by saying “don’t respond to my criticism.”
I don’t want to argue, but I do want to get the last word in, and I also want to explain that my reason for not arguing is that I know Cowbee by reputation and I refuse to be sealioned and trolled by him. I’d be very happy to say my piece without any sealioning and trolling, which is what I tried to make happen, but alas, once again he used the old “Why won’t you talk to me :(”, just like my ex does when she’s been drinking.
Those are essentially mutually exclusive…
If someone wants to argue with you, and you want to disengage, you have to accept that you’re not going to get the last word in no matter how many times you say “don’t argue with me” - cause you can’t control what they can say afterwards.
This is especially true, and comes off as childish, when you’re the one that baited that argument in the first place with “your piece”.
This reminds me of the behaviour in young siblings where one will initiate, and when the anticipated response comes, they launch in to “Mom, they’re touching me!”
You clearly do want to argue, you just don’t want to be argued back with. Either that, or you’re just trying to provoke a response.
I’d be happy to have an argument without trolling, sealioning, and calling people liberals